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The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing?
Miss Muis writes "After reading once again that Moore's Law will become obsolete, I amused myself thinking back to all the predictions, absolutes and impossibles in computing that have been surpassed with ease. In the late 80s I remember it being a well regarded popular 'fact' that 100MHz was the absolute limit for the speed of a CPU. Not too many years later I remember much discussion about hard drives for personal computers being physically unable to go much higher than 1GB. Let's not forget "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" from the chairman of IBM in 1943, and of course 'Apple is dying...' (for the past 25 years). What are your favorite beliefs-turned-on-their-heads in the history of computing?"
You must not download many pirated goods. I've got 500 GB worth of data and I'm going to have to get a new hard drive soon.
I like the Tab Window Manager, but I've recently upgraded to FVWM2 and it rocks.
I wouldn't be doing as well right now if I hadn't had got to college. So I must be dieing too...
oh wait...
Hello, again Apple's in the lead here. First Consumer-grade computer with a full unix under the hood, an bone-simple UI over the top, and 64-bits behind it all... This is something no one else is doing right now, but will be what everyone's doing five years from now, save MicroSoft (no unix-core for them, for they will just take there ball home if no one wants to play by thier rules).
What's your point again?
Now, except for the one knob on the 'scope under my desk, all my interfaces to the outside world ARE buttons
You do that at work? That's what I do for fun!
And you feel good about that?
You see, all the data on my drives is mine. Either I wrote it, or used an application that wrote the data. Its a good feeling knowing that I have actually created something of worth (atleast to me).
Why pirate? What did you do to earn (or how to you deserve) the pirated goods? If you are not willing to pay for the software/music that you use, why do you have it?
If I did not make money by working for a company that sells software that it (I being one of the programmers) writes I cannot write software that I give away for free. Now if someone copied our software onto the Internet and it was pirated left and right, our company would not be able to sell our software, and I would not get paid. I would then have to pick up a job in an industry where I actually produce a tangible (physical) item, since my IP is too easy to copy, not necessarily easy to create, but copying it is easy. I am then out of a job, and the world does not get the software that I write at work and probably would not get the software that I write for home entertainment (because I usualy write mockups and proof of concept stuff for work at home).
The IP structure we have in the US, as much of the western world, provides for people to create content. Because copying of ideas/music/etc is an incredibley inexpensive thing to do, we have copyrights and patents. We do realize the benefit to society that copyright or patents give, that being a source of income to the brightest and best in a field who produces so that they are not relegated to working in services based or production based jobs, and actually creating non-tangible material that benefits society.
Only take from people who give freely their work, others pay for their work if you must have it. If I freely give my software away, have it freely with my blessing and use it. If you pirate my software or do not follow the license I place it under, expect the full wrath of the law I can bring down on you.
Norris/Palin 2012
Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
...a real hottie named Elissabeth, ...and man she was HOT... but she told me once that IBM said MCA would be the top bus til the year 2000.
HAHAHAHAHA!!
I told her that it would be old hat by then.
-- I am. Therefore, I think!
Some of you moderators are stupid. Check the time and ID# of my post vs. the ones that said the same thing -- I am not the redundant post.
Just because you didn't see my article first doesn't mean I'm redundant -- it means you are negligent in doling out negative moderation by not checking to see who submitted first.
To meta-moderators -- check any post labelled redundant against posts in that thread to verify who actually posted the idea first -- then meta-moderate accordingly.
Simple fact -- you can't be redundant if you said it first.
Now to be ontopic -- the most incorrect assumption in computing is that anyone is capable of being a Slashdot moderator.
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
or that people care how much milk their laptop weighs.
Since when are conservatives interested in what is true or not? Conservatives are liars, cheaters, womanizers, and TRAITORS. Yes, that means you.
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!